With a cry of triumph, he rose, the sword hilt grasped in his fingers, the point
swishing up towards her. When she confessed all
this to her charge, telling the now grown up babe that there was no hope in the
world of establishing any claim, she very soon discovered her mistake. ’
‘Yes, but when I think about this, I do not think I can do so,’ she said candidly. Families had seen their lands seized, their
chateaux ransacked or burned, and those unlucky enough to have failed to
anticipate disaster, had been murdered or dragged away to gaol. As
his death was by no means what Jonathan desired, he resolved to remove him to
a more airy ward, and afford him such slight comforts as might tend to his
restoration, or at least keep him alive until the period of execution. Sheppard returned no answer. “Sit down,” he
said, and perused—“perused” is the word for it—for some moments. While he was considering what would be best to do, the poor maniac, over
whose bewildered brain another change had come, raised her head from under
the straw, and peeping round the room, asked in a low voice, "If they were
gone?"
"Who?" inquired Jack.
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